# People

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**Parent**: https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-groups/schiessel

## Helmut Schießel

Chair of Theoretical Physics of Living Matter

### Contact

[helmut.schiessel[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de](mailto:helmut.schiessel[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de)
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[+49 351 463-41253](tel:+4935146341253)

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### Helmut’s CV

#### Scientific Career

**as of 2021**\
Chair of Theoretical Physics of Living Matter at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TU Dresden

**2005–2020**\
Full professor, Theoretical Physics of Life Processes, Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University

**2000–2004**\
Project leader, Polymer Theory Group, Max-Planck Institute of Polymer Research, Mainz

**1999–2000**\
Postdoctoral researcher at Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California in Los Angeles

**1997–1998**\
Postdoctoral research at Materials Research Lab, University of California in Santa Barbara

#### Education

**1994–1997**\
PhD in Theoretical Physics at Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg

## Postdocs

### Subhasish Chaki

Postdoc

nuclear condensates

[subhasish.chaki[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de](mailto:subhasish.chaki[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de)

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### Manish Yadav

Postdoc

spermatogenesis; CpG methylation

[manish.yadav[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de](mailto:manish.yadav[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de)

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## PhD Students

### Fritz Förster

PhD Student

cellular reprogramming

[fritz.foerster1[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de](mailto:fritz.foerster1[AT]tu-dresden[DOT]de)

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### Adi Kiang

PhD Student (Leiden University)

diffusion of bead-spring systems in spatially periodic potentials

[kiang@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl](mailto:kiang@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl)

## Student Research Assistants

### Jason Galeczka

Student assistant

[jason.galeczka[AT]mailbox.tu-dresden[DOT]de](mailto:jason.galeczka[AT]mailbox.tu-dresden[DOT]de)

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| Room 216

## Administration

### Irina Breitner

Administrative Assistant

[irina.breitner@tu-dresden.de](mailto:irina.breitner@tu-dresden.de)
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[+49 351 463-41258](tel:+4935146341258)

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| Room 204

## Alumnus

### Takashi Nishio

Postdoc

### Enrico Skoruppa

Postdoc

### Sophie Klempahn

PhD Student

### Sukanta Mukherjee

PhD Student